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territorie and have established provisional governments. We recognize
them, and say that these governments represent the people of
China, North Korea, the people in the liberated zones of South Vietnam,
and the people in North Vietnam.
We believe their examples should be followed so that the order of
the day would not be reactionary intercommunalism (empire) but revolutionary
intcrcommunalism. The people of the world, that is, must
seize power from the small ruling circle and expropriate the expropriators,
pull them down from their pinnacle and make them equals,
and distribute the fruits of our labor that have been denied us in some
equitable way. We know that the machinery to accomplish these tasks
exists and we want access to it.
Imperialism has laid the foundation for world communism, and
imperialism itself has grown to the point of reactionary intercommunalism
because the world is now integrated into one community. The
communications revolution, combined with the expansive domination
of the American empire, has created the "global village." The peoples
of all cultures arc under siege by the same forces and they all have access
to the same technologies.
There are only differences in degree between what's happening
to the blacks here and what's happening to all of the people in the
world, including Africans. Their needs are the same and their energy
is the same. And the contradictions they suffer will only be resolved
when the people establish a revolutionary intercommunalism where
they share all the wealth that they produce and live in one world.
The stage of history is set for such a transformation: the technological
and administrative base of socialism exists. When the people
seize the means of production and all social institutions, then there
will be a qualitative leap and a change in the organization of society.
It will take time to resolve the contradictions of racism and all kinds
of chauvinism; but because the people will control their own social
institutions, they will be free to re-create themselves and to establish
communism, a stage of human development in which human values
will shape the structures of society. At this time the world will be ready
for a still higher level of which we can now know nothing.